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LAS VEGAS 
GALLINAS PARK 

THE SCENIC HIGHWAY 




VIEWS BY STIRRAT 



Compiled, Arranged and Edited by 

CHARLES W. G WARD 
ROBERT J. TAUPERT 

R. E. TWITCHELL 



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HEADQUARTERS New Mexico Division of the A., T. & S. F. railway system. 
Population of city and suburbs, 10,000.. Altitude, 6,400 feet. 
An ideal summer and winter climate. The mean annual temperature 51.70. 
Three hundred sunny days in a year. 

Recommended for healthfulness by leading physicians of the country. 
Excellent system of water supply from mountain streams. 
Most attractive residence city of the section. 
All leading church denominations represented. 

Fine system of public schools. Territorial Normal University. Carnegie Library. 
Y. M. 0. A. well organized, with building in prospect. 
G-Qod hotel and boarding accommodations. 
Attractive mountain drives and resorts. 

Electric railway in city, to the famous Hot Springs and Gallinas Canon. 
Great undeveloped mining district adjacent now being opened up. 
Grallinas Park. — A beautiful iDlace for recreation and amusement, with the finest 
speeding course in the Southwest. 



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IAS VEGAS is a city of homes, schools and churches. Many of its ten thou- 
^ sand inhabitants are wealthy and cultured. Few are lacking in the whole- 
some, open-hearted Western spirit which is ever ready with a welcome for 
the man of high or low estate. Those who think of coming to this rapidly 
developing Southwestern land are often deterred by the belief that they must 
relinquish the refinements and many of the comforts of life. It will be pleasing to 
these to learn that in Las Vegas they will find a corner of the Southwest where 
no such sacrifice is exacted. 



The schools in Las Vegas are fully up to the high Eastern standard. The 
city is the seat of one of the Territorial Normal Schools. Its public and high 
schools are ably conducted, and there are also excellent convent schools. 

It has a trolley system which operates throughout the city and reaches the 
beautiful mountain country adjacent to the grand Gallinas Canon. In such 
modern utilities as electric light, water and railroad facilities it is quite up to 
the standard. 

There are churches of nearly all denominations, presided over by able pastors. 

Its banks are as stable as any throughout the country. The modern sidewalks 
and lovely lawns have long been a subject of favorable remark on the part of 



visitors. No city in the Southwest possesses so many handsome homes, nor a 
more highly educated and cultured people. lis stores are equal to those of cities 
ten times its size, and prices are those of the Eastern standard. 

The people have many pursuits. Many residents are of independent means, 
living here solely on account of the superb climate and educational facilities. The 
professions are represented by men of marked ability. A large proportion of the 
population consists of ranchmen, cattle and sheep growers, railroad men, business 
men, and artisans of all kinds. As a wool market and as a supply point for a large 
area of country, this city is important. Its growth is steady and substantial and 
it has a future siirpassed by no Southwestern commiinity. 



^ LAS VEGAS CLIMATE 1- 






MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR YEAR 



January 33 . 2 

February 37 . 6 

March 38.1 

April 53 . 4 

May 58.8 

June 71.2 

Mean annual temperature. . . . 



July 68.6 

August 69 . 6 

September 61 . 

October , 51 . 6 

November 40 . 2 

December 32 . 7 

51.7 



Last of Spring, April 26 First of Autumn, October 3 



Clear days 286 

Partly cloudy days 64 

Cloudy days 15 

Rainy days 53 



Prevailing direction of wind West 

Precipitation 9 . 78 inches 

Snowfall 15.5 inches 



I CLIMATIC CONDITIONS I 



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WHEN the charms of the bluest of Italian skies have faded, the fragrance of 
the soft zephyrs that breathe over the Andalusian hills and the delights 
of "sunlit vales of Araby the Blest" have been forgotten, the sweet, exhilara- 
ting air and soft sunshine of this region of mesa and valley and mountain will 
remain fresh in memory. Few who have listened to the beguiling siren voices that 
steal with the breezes from the hills, and have bathed in the golden flood that ebbs 
only with the shadows of the night, can find the content that once they knew in 
other lands. The charm may be inexplainable, but indubitably it is found in New 
Mexico. The brown and barren mesas, the beautiful mountains and lovely valleys 



that surround this region are favored with an ideal climate, unsurpassed upon this 
continent. 

The sunny, golden winter days are replete with charm. The summers — golden 
and lovely, too, but broken often by short-lived showers— are always cool and de- 
lightful. The mellow, hazy autumn days are without a flaw. 

The shadow of death is lifted and disease loses its power to blight before the 
dry, bracing atmosphere of the beautiful hills. Tuberculosis, direst scourge of the 
human race, cannot originate here, and thousands who come from every state in the 
union, and from the far corners of the earth, have been restored to rugged health, 
or greatly benefited Many cures that fall little short of the miraculous have been 



reported, and in no case where the location has been sought in the early stages of 
throat and lung diseases has improvement failed to result. Cool and energizing in 
summer, dreamy and deliciously calm in the autumn, bright and warm in the winter, 
inspiriting, though often too breezy for comfort in the spring, the best physicians 
are beginning to coincide in the opinion that this city and immediate vicinity com- 
bine more advantages for an all-the-year-around climate than any other part of the 
world. While this is particularly true regarding the treatment of tubercular dis- 
ease, yet the most robiist find delight in the quality of the climate, and the weak 
and weary, from whatever cause, draw from the brilliant sunshine and vitalizing 
air the rest or healing or recreation they may need. 



Chicago, June 2, 1904. 

I beg leave to say that I have personally visited Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Phcsnix, 
Denver, Colorado Springs and many other points in the West and Southwest, and 
as a result of personal observation, I am satisfied that Las Vegas is the best place 
in the Southwest for a sanitarium for the treatment of tuberculosis at all seasons 
of the year. Sheltered as it is by the mountains from the north, and far enough 
south to escape the severe cold of Denver, having an ideal water supply and no 
mosquitoes, and very few flies, comparatively little dust, never too hot in the sum- 
mer and never too cold in the winter, I consider this location ideal. I have sent 
many patients there, and they have all done well. Very sincerely yours, 

(Signed) George W. Webster, M. D,, 

President State Board of Health, Illinois; Professor Clinical Medicine, North- 
western University Medical College; Attending Physician, Mercy and Wesley 
Hospitals, etc. 



OPINIONS OF EMINENT PHYSICIANS 



Chicago June 1, 1904. 

I have been on the ground. Permit me to say that I coosider it in every way 
ideal. We may talk as much as we like about the home treatment of consumption 
at low altitudes, but the great benefit afforded these cases by the altitude and 
climate such as that of Las Vegas is unquestioned. A. M. Coewin, M. D., 

Professor Physical Diagnosis, College of Physicians and Surgeons; Staff, 
Cook County Hospital. 



Chicago, August 1, 1904. 
I feel that it is one of the best localities in the United States for the treat- 
ment of tuberculosis. Having lived there for a number of months in 1890, I had 
an opportunity to make close observation of the telluric and physical conditions 
of the place, and I believe you will find that it will give great results. 

J. B. MuEPHY, M. D., 
Professor Surgery, Northwestern University Medical College; Attending Sur- 
geon, Cook County and Alexian Brothers^ HospitaJs, etc. 



OPINIONS OF EMINENT PHYSICIANS 



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SAN MIGUEL COUNTY COURT HOUSE 




-CARNEGIE LIBRARY- 




ST ANTHONY SANITARIUM 



-CASTANEDA HOTEL- 




NORMAL UNIVERSITY 




CASTLE SCHOOL 




DOUGLAS SCHOOL 




BRIDGE STREET 




THE PLAZA 




LAS VEGAS CHURCHES 



I THE SCENIC HIGHWAY I 

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""K TEW MEXICO has solved the most vital industrial problem of the age— 
i ^ how to utilize convict labor to construct highways She may coafidently 
challenge the nation to match her mountain road now under construction from 
Las Vegas to Santa Fe. Its standards of location and construction have known no 
equal in my field, which reaches from the Missouri River to the Pacific, and from 
British Columbia to Mexico." Signed: James W. Abbott, 

U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Mr. Abbott is the special agent of the Mountain and Pacific Coast Division of 
the Office of Public Road Inquiries. 



The following extracts from the interview with Mr. Abbott are indicative of 
the high estimate which he places upon the character of the work being done in 
the canon of the Gallinas. 

"This is the greatest day I have ever spent." 

"New Mexico has accomplished more to advance the cause of good road 
reform than has been done by any other state in the union. You have gotten 
right down to business and settled the great question of road building." 

"I don't believe any other mountain highway on the American continent has 
been conceived along such perfect lines, and built on so high a standard, all of 
double-track width, with a maximum grade of h per cent., so that a horse with a 
buggy can trot over it from end to end." 

The Scenic Highway, now undergoing rapid construction between Santa Fe and 
Las Vegas, will take front rank among the finest roads of the world. This high- 




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land way makes its patb over the noblest of mountains, across the Pecos Forest 
Reserve and along the steep sides of the great green hills that border the beauti- 
ful valleys and the stupendous canons of the Pecos, Gallinas and Sapello rivers. The 
distance is scarce fifty miles, but within that interval the eye may rest upon scenes 
as fair, as picturesque, as richly colored and as magnificent as any on earth. 
Fifteen miles or more of this grand highway have already been completed. It 
will give great interest to the American public in that it will make accessible a 
new Wonderland — a wonderland filled with purple peaks, Titan gorges, superbly 
colored forests of silver aspens and dark pines, rushing streams, shining yellow 
mesas and floods of the most brilliant sunshine — a wonderland without a single 
prosaic feature. 

The Grand Canon of Arizona scarcely surpasses in effulgence of coloring, in 
grandeur, in majestic and harmonious beauty, the giant chasm through which the 
waters of the Gallinas find their way between the magnificent Mount of the Hermit 



and the lofty peaks of Del Cielo. Where scant hundreds have been charmed by the 
prodigal beauties of this region, the Scenic Highway will open the path to thousands. 
New Mexico is building the Scenic Highway Its design is in no sense utili- 
tarian. The sole object of this mountain way is to give to the world a view of 
scenery unsurpassed upon the globe. Convicts from the penitentiary are the build- 
ers. The results are a confessed solution of the great question of convict labor. 
The world at large will learn from this jurisdiction the lesson taught by expe- 
rience. Not a Koman of old, not a master of to-day has builded a more excellent 
way. It winds through deep chasms and over dizzy heights, but everywhere 
it is wide and hard and smooth, supported by solid stone and with never a grade 
of more than four per cent. Few events in this life can be more pleasant than a 
drive, on one of our ideal days, upon this splendid road which leads away to the 
mountain wonderland that so few have been fortunate enough to penetrate. 




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MOUNTAIN TROUT 




SCENIC HIGHWAY 




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GALLINAS CANON 




QALLINAS CANON 




GALLINAS CANON 




SCENIC HIGHWAY 




SWITCHBACK, SCENIC HIGHWAY 



? GALLINAS PARK I 

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LAS VEGAS is proud of Gallinas Park. Nowhere between the Missouri River 
^ aad the Pacific Coast is found a better race-course than that located at 
Gallinas Park. Its accessibility to the city of Las Vegas, being paralleled on the 
west by the electric railway for a distance of nearly a mile, lying in the beautiful 
valley just at the mouth of the Gallinas Canon — a more ideal spot for a race-course 
and pleasure resort could not be found in the entire region of the Rocky Moun- 
tains. Supplied as it is with water of the purest, with electric power and lights, 
with stables unequaled on any race-course in the West, it is, in truth, the horseman's 
paradise. A view of the pictures of this beautiful park in this souvenir gives 



scant idea of the wealth of landscape which surrounds the park and mates it 
beyond all question the most beautiful resort of New Mexico. Midway between the 
^reat race tracks of the Mississippi Valley and the East and the winter courses of 
the Pacific Coast, Gallinas Park offers to owners of harness and running horses 
alike the greatest of advantages in stopping over for resting and training purxDoses. 
The track is available for speeding and training every month in the year; and, 
in addition to the race course itself, there are in the park over two and one- 
half miles of driveways and boulevards unexcelled in any portion of the West. The 
stable facilities are excellent and the management is most liberal. 



















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